.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 310 138
Rank change year-on-year +87 -172 +19
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 741 396 1,848
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.86% 0.95% 2.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.24% 5.00% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 715 332 1,692
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,557
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,938 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,750 £106,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,988 7,922 17,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.47% 18.96% 19.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6,871 5,365 14,463
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,851 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,600 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 3 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +93 181 £55,000 +10.00% 45
North of England +18 163 £55,000 -8.33% 48
East of England +71 109 £62,500 +16.28% 21
Midlands +43 105 £55,000 -8.33% 26
London -85 94 £82,500 - 57
South West -8 85 £52,500 - 10
North West -2 73 £50,000 -16.67% 25
North East +2 62 £65,000 +33.33% 12
West Midlands +11 57 £55,000 -8.33% 15
East Midlands +22 48 £55,000 +4.76% 11
Yorkshire -34 28 £55,000 -12.00% 13
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.35%) IIS
3 7 (0.94%) CMS
4 4 (0.54%) Confluence
4 4 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (0.54%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.40%) DNN
5 3 (0.40%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.40%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.40%) Kentico
5 3 (0.40%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Magento
1 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 583 (78.68%) Azure
2 186 (25.10%) Azure DevOps
3 129 (17.41%) GitHub
4 122 (16.46%) Azure AI
5 120 (16.19%) AWS
6 116 (15.65%) GitHub Copilot
7 58 (7.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 52 (7.02%) Azure Logic Apps
9 43 (5.80%) SaaS
10 41 (5.53%) Power Platform
11 34 (4.59%) Serverless
12 27 (3.64%) Power Automate
12 27 (3.64%) PowerApps
13 26 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (3.10%) Azure Functions
15 22 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
15 22 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
16 19 (2.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (2.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.94%) Internet
2 8 (1.08%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.40%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.27%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) AMQP
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Modbus
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 406 (54.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 334 (45.07%) MongoDB
3 143 (19.30%) SQL Server
4 131 (17.68%) Elasticsearch
5 36 (4.86%) Power BI
6 13 (1.75%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.62%) MySQL
8 9 (1.21%) NonStop SQL
9 8 (1.08%) Redis
10 7 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (0.94%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.67%) GIS
13 4 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.40%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.13%) Data Lake
15 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 36 (4.86%) Git
2 12 (1.62%) JIRA
3 7 (0.94%) GitLab
4 5 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.54%) MSI
5 4 (0.54%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.40%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.40%) NUnit
6 3 (0.40%) Vite
7 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.27%) Postman
7 2 (0.27%) webpack
8 1 (0.13%) MSTest
8 1 (0.13%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 106 (14.30%) Finance
2 52 (7.02%) Social Skills
3 49 (6.61%) Advertising
4 42 (5.67%) Games
5 34 (4.59%) Marketing
6 29 (3.91%) Retail
7 19 (2.56%) Banking
8 12 (1.62%) Aerospace
8 12 (1.62%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (1.21%) Automotive
9 9 (1.21%) Law
9 9 (1.21%) Music Industry
10 8 (1.08%) Front Office
10 8 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.94%) Legal
12 5 (0.67%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.67%) Public Sector
13 4 (0.54%) Back Office
13 4 (0.54%) Electronics
13 4 (0.54%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 620 (83.67%) Developer
2 485 (65.45%) .NET Developer
3 104 (14.04%) Senior
4 93 (12.55%) Software Developer
5 64 (8.64%) C# Developer
6 62 (8.37%) Senior Developer
7 54 (7.29%) C# .NET Developer
8 49 (6.61%) Lead
9 45 (6.07%) Software Engineer
10 40 (5.40%) Full-Stack Developer
11 32 (4.32%) Lead Developer
12 26 (3.51%) .NET Software Engineer
13 25 (3.37%) .NET Software Developer
14 24 (3.24%) Senior Software Developer
15 21 (2.83%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 20 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 20 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
17 18 (2.43%) C# Software Developer
18 17 (2.29%) Azure Developer
18 17 (2.29%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 741 (100.00%) .NET
2 457 (61.67%) ASP.NET
3 397 (53.58%) ASP.NET Core
4 198 (26.72%) HTML
5 195 (26.32%) CSS
6 193 (26.05%) Entity Framework
7 191 (25.78%) React
8 185 (24.97%) Blazor
9 164 (22.13%) RESTful
10 162 (21.86%) Vue
11 161 (21.73%) AngularJS
12 156 (21.05%) ASP.NET Web API
13 143 (19.30%) Node.js
14 127 (17.14%) .NET Framework
15 122 (16.46%) ML.NET
16 96 (12.96%) LINQ
17 58 (7.83%) REST
18 42 (5.67%) JSON
19 28 (3.78%) WPF
20 21 (2.83%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 80 (10.80%) Greenfield Project
2 49 (6.61%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (2.70%) Digital TV
4 18 (2.43%) Cloud Native
5 17 (2.29%) iPhone
5 17 (2.29%) Mobile App
6 14 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (1.89%) Hedge funds
6 14 (1.89%) Social Network
7 13 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.75%) Sports Betting
8 12 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.35%) BBC
9 10 (1.35%) Social Media
9 10 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 8 (1.08%) Low-Code
11 7 (0.94%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.94%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.29%) Android
2 14 (1.89%) Windows
3 12 (1.62%) VMS
4 3 (0.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (64.91%) Full-Stack Development
2 369 (49.80%) Agile
3 235 (31.71%) CI/CD
4 221 (29.82%) DevOps
5 181 (24.43%) Microservices
6 147 (19.84%) AI
7 142 (19.16%) Machine Learning
8 134 (18.08%) Multithreading
9 95 (12.82%) Software Engineering
10 79 (10.66%) OO
11 74 (9.99%) Scrum
12 73 (9.85%) TDD
13 59 (7.96%) BDD
14 58 (7.83%) SDLC
15 53 (7.15%) Analytics
16 52 (7.02%) User Experience
17 50 (6.75%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 50 (6.75%) Kanban
18 47 (6.34%) Business Intelligence
18 47 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 700 (94.47%) C#
2 500 (67.48%) SQL
3 230 (31.04%) JavaScript
4 199 (26.86%) TypeScript
5 37 (4.99%) PowerShell
6 21 (2.83%) Python
7 13 (1.75%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (0.81%) Bicep
10 5 (0.67%) Java
11 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.40%) Bash
12 3 (0.40%) PHP
12 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.13%) C++
13 1 (0.13%) Delphi
13 1 (0.13%) F#
13 1 (0.13%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 42 (5.67%) Degree
2 20 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.08%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.54%) AWS Certification
5 4 (0.54%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.27%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.10%) QA
2 18 (2.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.67%) WCAG
4 4 (0.54%) NCSC
5 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.27%) GDPR
6 2 (0.27%) ITGC
6 2 (0.27%) SLA
7 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 178 (24.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 168 (22.67%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.29%) Terraform
3 2 (0.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 471 (63.56%) Microsoft
2 46 (6.21%) Facebook
3 39 (5.26%) Google
4 19 (2.56%) Adobe
4 19 (2.56%) YouTube
5 10 (1.35%) Apple
5 10 (1.35%) Sony
5 10 (1.35%) Yahoo!
6 6 (0.81%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.54%) Sitecore
7 4 (0.54%) Workday
8 3 (0.40%) Alterian
8 3 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.40%) Optimizely
8 3 (0.40%) Splunk
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle
9 2 (0.27%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.13%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.13%) IBM
10 1 (0.13%) Reuters